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monolatry|məˈnɒlətrɪ|
[f. Gr. µόνο-ς mono- + λατρεία worship, -latry.]
The worship of one god, where other gods may be supposed to exist.
1881W. R. Smith Old Test. In Jew. Ch. x. 273 The religion of the Old Testament is no mere natural variety of Semitic monolatry. 1886Huxley in 19th Cent. Apr. 495 A worship of one God—monolatry as Wellhausen calls it—which is very different from genuine monotheism. 1892Montefiore Hibbert Lect. i. 11 Monolatry is the worship of one god; monotheism, of the one and only God. |
